Economics Faculty Directory

Tayfun Sönmez

Professor

Department

Economics

Selected Publications

"Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at the United States Military Academy", with Tobias Switzer, 2013. Econometrica, 81:2, 451-488

"School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation," Parag Pathak, 2013. American Economic Review, 103:1, 80-106

"Bidding for Army Career Specialties: Improving the ROTC Branching Mechanism", 2013. Journal of Political Economy, 121:1, 186-219

"Kidney Exchange," with Alvin Roth and M. Utku Ünver, 2004. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119:2, 457-488

"School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach," with Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, 2003. American Economic Review, 93:3, 729-747

Downloadable Boston College Working Papers

Working Paper 1069. Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications", (03/2024; PDF)

Working Paper 1068. Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), "Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory", (04/2024; PDF)

Working Paper 1054. Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College) and M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), "How (not) to reform India's affirmative action policies for its economically weaker segments." (11/2022; PDF)

Working Paper 1035. Kyle Greenberg (US Military Academy, West Point), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), "Mechanism Design meets Priority Design: Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process Through Market Design" (06/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 1026. Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College) and M. Bumin Yenmez (Boston College), "Can Economic Theory be Informative for the Judiciary? Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations." (01/2021; PDF)

Working Paper 1019. Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Adam Solomon (MIT), Edwin Song (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), and M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), "Do Black and Indigenous Communities Receive their Fair Share of Vaccines Under the 2018 CDC Guidelines?" (10/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 1015. Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), and M. Bumin Yenmez (Boston College), "Fair Allocation of Vaccines, Ventilators and Antiviral Treatments: Leaving No Ethical Value Behind in Health Care Rationing." (07/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 1007. Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College), and M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), "Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design." (05/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 997. Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, M. Utku Ünver, Boston College, and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Leaving No Ethical Value Behind: Triage Protocol Design for Pandemic Rationing.", (04/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 995. Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University, and Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College, "Reversing Reserves", (04/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 993. Parag A. Pathak, MIT, Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University, and Tayfun Sonmez, Boston College, "Immigration Lottery Design: Engineered and Coincidental Consequences of H-1B Reforms", (01/2020; PDF)

Working Paper 990. Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Affirmative Action with Overlapping Reserves", (12/2019; PDF)

Working Paper 978. Tayfun Sönmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Constitutional Implementation of Vertical and Horizontal Reservations in India: A Unified Mechanism for Civil Service Allocation and College Admissions", (4/2019; PDF)

Working Paper 977. Tayfun Sönmez and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, "Affirmative Action in India via Vertical and Horizontal Reservations", (3/2019; PDF)"

Working Paper 951. Haluk Ergin, University of California at Berkeley, Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, and M. Utku Ünver, Boston College, "Efficient and Incentive-Compatible Liver Exchange", (5/2018; PDF)

Working Paper 932. Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, and M. Utku Ünver, Boston College, “Market Design for Living-Donor Organ Exchanges: An Economic Policy Perspective”, (6/30/17; PDF)

Working Paper 931. Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, M. Utku Ünver, Boston College, and M. Bumin Yenmez, Boston College, “Incentivized Kidney Exchange”, (6/30/17; PDF)

Working Paper 906. Umut Mert Dur, North Carolina State University, Parag A. Pathak, MIT, and Tayfun Sönmez, "Explicit vs. Statistical Preferential Treatment in Affirmative Action: Theory and Evidence from Chicago’s Exam Schools" (3/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 900. Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, M. Utku Ünver, Boston College, and Özgür Yilmaz, Koç University, "" (1/2016; PDF)

Working Paper 886: Haluk Ergin, University of California, Berkeley, Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College, and Utku Ünver, Boston College, "" (rev. 2/2017; PDF)

Working Paper 872. Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard University) and Tayfun Sönmez, "" (12/2014; PDF)

Working Paper 868. Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver, "" (1/2015; PDF)

Working Paper 806. Scott Duke Kominers (University of Chicago) and Tayfun Sönmez, "" (7/2012: PDF)

Working Paper 805. Orhan Aygün (Boston College) and Tayfun Sönmez, "" (6/2012: PDF)